Will AMC Stock Squeeze This Year? [Short Interest Data]

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1. I can’t believe we are letting AA crush our investment in AMC with an illegal vote that was set up by him selling APE shares to get a majority vote. At the same time not providing voting applications to all owners of the stock. This is like a nightmare and we are sitting here ready to be destroyed financially playing into the hands of the crooks that AA is protecting. We are stuck down 400% hoping to get our money back to save AMC and AA is crushing us. We need to sue or loose all our life savings WTF OMG.

2. So how can we buy more if there is only a few percent left of the float? How will that create a squeeze at this point? I’ve been pondering about that because its stated that you have to keep buying, but if you can buy is only 10% of the float the stock price won’t even budge because volume will not be a huge lift. Can someone explain? My thought is people have to sell so people can buy by the huge volumes again.

3. I enjoy your articles and find them very helpful . There is a great deal of chatter about the T+90 rule that will supposedly force the squeeze . Do you have any information about this?

4. About 5.5%, and the short interest is nearly 20%.

5. AMC has 90%+ retail ownership. What is retail ownership in cinemark?

6. @Will 100%

7. If AMC is a short squeeze candidate with potential to reach $100 because it has a short interest of 21%, then the same must be true of Cinemark, which is priced around the same value per share and also has a short interest of about 21%.

   Here’s the thing, though: while neither company can reasonably claim a valuation of $100 on fundamentals, Cinemark is a traditionally profitable company with a stable outlook that just posted profits in Q4. On fundamentals, it can justify a valuation in the high $20s, nearly double its current $16.50 price. AMC, in contrast, can’t justify on fundamentals even the share price it has right now.

   That being the case, if a 21% short interest is sufficient to create conditions for a squeeze, and if you believe that the media and various funds are determined to badmouth AMC, wouldn’t it make sense to start buying CNK shares and attempt to engineer a squeeze there instead?

   A lot of apes see AMC and Cinemark as competitors, which is true in only the loosest sense. Domestically, most people live in smaller markets where there is only one Big Three cinema. Even where there are choices, people have their favorites based on location or which club program they prefer (because their programs are totally different). ALL of the cinemas are actually in competition with something else, which is the media and analysts’ fascination with streaming. Whatever makes theaters prosper is good for all of the cinema brands, because what they all need is a greater commitment to the theatrical release window.

   If you go and buy Cinemark shares, and Cinemark surges up to $60 or $70 on a short squeeze, you make money that you can reinvest in AMC or whatever if you want to do so. Cinemark, meanwhile, can issue new shares — it’s got a lot of room to do that, while AMC doesn’t — and pay down its debt further, increasing its profitability. That will help boost confidence in the cinema sector as a whole, which may boost AMC as well. But even if it doesn’t, please understand that the day that competition among the chains becomes a big deal again will mean we’ve already won. What we need to do is to promote the cinemas in general.

   So, stay long AMC, by all means. If you’re really trying to stick it to the media and the hedge funds, understand that the odds of a squeeze for Cinemark are probably higher than for AMC all things being equal, because Cinemark’s recent performance is stronger and it’s more broadly accepted to be a recovery story. Get into buying CNK and we could see the same kind of surge as we saw in AMC last year, but with a lot less potential for media coverage to go negative.

   Something to think about, anyway. 😉

8. I’ve been seeing such negative articles from Motley Fool, and several writers at Investor Place. This is the first one that is real about why a squeeze could be hindered.

9. Your reasoning that AMC needs retail to keep buying in order to propel a squeeze is ludicrous at this point. We already own 90% of the float according to AA. Buying does not make a difference at this point its useless. The SEC needs to get off thier ASS and do something. GG is a puppet for the elite. Check out the interview he had with Jon Stewart on Apple TV. You can tell that GG is full of shit and really has no power or intention on doing anything.

   1. https://franknez.com/the-apes-have-exposed-market-corruption-but-whats-being-done/

10. I’ve been dollar cost averaging into my $AMC positions since 1/18/21. I’ll continue buying and holding even more since it’s near my cost basis average.

11. Frank what can we do as Apes to get the SEC to take action???

    1. Hi Gary, the SEC and DOJ are currently taking Morgan Stanley and multiple hedge funds to court: https://franknez.com/regulators-are-taking-morgan-stanley-and-hedge-funds-to-court/

       Apes must continue to raise awareness on social platforms while tagging regulators. Consistent demand will create change. Thanks for your comment brother.

12. Please mention DRS..

    1. That’ll be a separate post, thanks for your comment.

13. .. One of the biggest problems the community faces today is regulators not protecting retail investors against the predatorial strategies from hedge funds…👏👏 Yes!! And #5 is our biggest threat ~ hedge corruptions and what’s worse is that there are no regulations to stop their ongoing manipulations! Thank you for spreading the awareness. I wish more apes are passionate about it, not just about the moass. Apes, demand JUSTICE!!

    1. That’s right Sophie, the retail community demands JUSTICE

14. Thanks Sir Frank. Walking by Faith and Waiting upon the Lord. The Promised Land is on the horizon.

    Isaiah 40:31

    1. Yes 🙏

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